Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org

The longer I’m around the more I’ve learned life is about perspective. Like who knew the underside of a mushroom could be such an interesting view? I mean the ants & ladybugs probably knew but they weren’t spilling their secrets.

Try to view things a little differently today and just see what happens. Hopefully good things. ❤️

#mushroom #perspective #positivity

A few days ago, I asked a self-identified leftist why they're still on Twitter.

Their response: "I shouldn't have to leave Twitter, Elon Musk should!"

🙄

That's not how it works.

Elon Musk literally owns Twitter now. It's completely in his private hands. Twitter isn't even trading on the stock market anymore.

Twitter's data centers hosting all your tweets? Elon Musk physically owns them now.

Everything you put on Twitter now -- Elon Musk owns it!

Teri Kanefield unfortunately lost some followers when she moved instances recently

If you like you find her here now! @Teri_Kanefield

(She’s a former appellate defender, and a legal and political analysts.)

If you see a ‘pending’ at this moment just click/tab another time for a follow♥️

@lisatozzi Drive carefully. Oh, right, it’s self-driving. Good luck!

#StarTrek #2001:ASpaceOdyssey

Here's a little tidbit about "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968):

When I was working on the first Trek film ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture" - ST:TMP - 1979), one of my coworkers was a brilliant gentleman who had been a TD (technical director) on 2001. As I recall he had a collection of little HAL 9000 stickers that would show up in various places around the facility.

Anyway, he had been in charge of all those wonderful data displays in 2001, in the ships and everywhere else. Keep in mind that this was before CGI so everything was done via conventional animation and/or computer motion control camera techniques.

I had been fascinated by those displays ever since I originally saw them. One day we were chatting and I asked him, "How the hell was anyone supposed to be able to interpret all that data from those displays with so much there?" And he replied, "Lauren, that was the whole point! No human could. That's why the mission was impossible without HAL!" -L

If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?

I am thankful for my readers, who give me a reason to write.

JJ is thankful for seagulls to run after and bark at.

(And I'm thankful to have JJ's 24/7 security protection.)

Happy Thanksgiving from the central California coast.

It’s #FollowFriday so boost this post and help God get more followers! The more people that follow Me here the more comedy people on Twitter will realize they should move to Mastodon!

K&R The C Programming Language 1978

A decade ago, this image went mega-viral on Google+. In the ensuing years, it has been adapted and reused thousands of times.

@cra1g created this instantly viral image and tells the story of its evolution here:
https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-meme-ddc4e139e0e4
@sociology @politicalscience

@EubieDrew @Teri_Kanefield

@Teri_Kanefield @EubieDrew @kimberleon maybe tag some of the other large following accounts that post about the courts and law? Then they can boost your post to their followers, I'm guessing there is a lot of crossover.

Utqiaġvik, #Alaska as of 8am Wednesday up to 28F (-2.2C), which is a new record high temperature for Nov 30th. Previous record 27F (-2.8C) set in 1967. Temperature could well go higher next few hours. Unbroken climate observations at Utqiaġvik since autumn 1920. #akwx @Climatologist49 @ajatnuvuk

@Teri_Kanefield @EubieDrew @kimberleon We can all boost your posts to others. Another option is to create a hashtag #TeriKanefield & people can find you that way, too <3

#JWST analyses in detail the chemical composition of the atmosphere of exoplanet - 700 light years away -- for the first time https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03820-3 #astrochemistry

When debugging, I usually print out a bunch of "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"s because I'm screaming and it helps me locate my debug output.